37.2593, Confs: Panel at IPC20: Anonymisation and Pseudonymisation – Challenges With Privacy Protection in Linguistics (Finland)

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Subject: 37.2593, Confs: Panel at IPC20:  Anonymisation and Pseudonymisation – Challenges With Privacy Protection in Linguistics (Finland)

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Date: 05-Aug-2026
From: Lisa Södergård [lisa.sodergard at helsinki.fi]
Subject: Panel at IPC20:  Anonymisation and Pseudonymisation – Challenges With Privacy Protection in Linguistics

Panel at IPC20:  Anonymisation and Pseudonymisation – Challenges With
Privacy Protection in Linguistics
Short Title: IPC20

Date: 27-Jun-2027 - 02-Jul-2027
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Contact: Lisa Södergård
Contact Email: lisa.sodergard at helsinki.fi
Meeting URL: https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP2027

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis;
Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Submission Deadline: 15-Oct-2026

We are thrilled to announce that our panel at the International
Pragmatics Conference is now accepting submissions.
Researchers have an ethical responsibility to protect and respect
research participants, their personal information, and any sensitive
information that might be disclosed in the original data. The General
Data Protection Regulation, GDPR (EU 2016/679), emphasises the need to
reflect on how we treat personal information. At the same time there
is an increased interest in open data (e.g. the FAIR principles & CARE
principles) in relation to open science, reproducibility and
sustainability (UNESCO 2021), as well as a need for (authentic) data
to train Large Language Models (LLMs) and hence Artificial
intelligence (AI).
Automatic pseudonymisation is developing rapidly, but so far
guidelines and research have primarily focused on use cases from the
health and legal sector while leaving linguistics and humanities
largely unnoticed. Within the field of linguistics, data management
and ethics have recently gained attention (cf. Berez-Kroeker et al.
2021; D’Arcy & Bender 2023; Terkourafi 2025). In addition, within
linguistics and the humanities efforts to empower the participants
have been made, giving them a choice how to be represented (see e.g.
Deakin- Smith et al. 2025; Lahman et al. 2023). However, there is
hardly any knowledge about the effects anonymisation and
pseudonymisation have on research possibilities and research findings
(Volodina et al. 2025) within linguistics in general, and within
fields focusing on linguistic usage and meaning in particular.
Privacy protection is not only something that must be thought about
when publishing findings; it is also an important part of preparing
datasets. Today there is more and more use of large datasets (corpora)
which researchers often hope to be able to share with others for
reasons of transparency, replicability but also sustainable continued
research. How can linguistic datasets be pseudonymised without
affecting their usefulness for linguistic research? How can secondary
users be informed of which items have been altered and how without
revealing identities?
We welcome contributions which discuss how
anonymisation/pseudonymisation can be done in linguistics and how it
can affect their research topics. We urgently need joint efforts to
build bridges on reliable, solid data for linguistics as well as for
LLM-development.
The deadline for submissions is 15 October 2026, and we encourage
those interested in the panel to read more on the main pages for the
conference: https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP2027
Make sure to select the panel “Anonymisation and pseudonymisation –
challenges with privacy protection in linguistics” when submitting.
The panel is organised by the research environment Mormor Karl
(Grandma Karl) of which the main organisers are members. We hope for
contributions from diverse perspectives on
anonymisation/pseudonymisation in relation to linguistic research.
Lisa Södergård & Therese Lindström Tiedemann (University of Helsinki)
and the Mormor Karl-team https://mormor-karl.github.io/
References:
Berez-Kroeker, A. L., McDonnell, B., Koller, E., Collister, L. B. eds.
2021. The Open Handbook of Linguistic Data Management. Cambridge,
Massachusetts & London: MIT Press.
D'Arcy, A., & Bender, E. M. 2023. Ethics in linguistics. Annual Review
of Linguistics, 9(1), 49-69.
Deakin-Smith, H., Pilcher, J., Flaherty, J., Coffey, A., & Makis, E.
2025. The research politics of (re) naming participants: A sociology
of names perspective. Qualitative Research, 25(3), 629-647.
Lahman, M. K., Thomas, R., & Teman, E. D. 2023. A good name:
Pseudonyms in research. Qualitative Inquiry, 29(6), 678-685.
Terkourafi, M. 2025. An ethics for linguistics? What, why, and how?.
Linguistics, 63(2), 317–347.
Volodina, E., Dobnik, S., Lindström Tiedemann, T., Muñoz Sánchez, R.,
Szawerna, M. I., Södergård, L. & Vu, X.-S. 2025. Towards shared
standards for pseudonymization of research data. Huminfra Conference
proceedings, 12th–13th Nov. 2025, Stockholm.

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